20 Useful Resources for Joomla Beginners

December is a busy month for me where one of the toughest task, probably is to recreate my company’s portal. This is when I finally started to read up and try on the powerful Joomla CMS.
 

What is Joomla?

Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone. Click here to understand more of its features.
 
Here are 10 tutorials on the Joomla fundamentals that I think are important for beginners like myself. You will need to understand the relationships between sections, categories, articles and modules before starting to build your site.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
After learning the basic theories, I bet most of us will want to get some free downloads and find out how to customize Joomla templates better. Unfortunately, most of the free Joomla templates available are not really as high quality as those we see from WordPress. I managed to compile 5 of my personal favorites here.
 
 
 
 
 
 
If you have some budget to work with, followings are some places to get the beautiful commercial templates. Make sure you visit RocketTheme!
 
 
 
 
 

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14 Comments | Write a Comment

  1. I just started using Joomla and am having trouble finding good template galleries. Any suggestions?

  2. Mike says:

    very great tutorials for me as joomla beginner very good, thank you.

  3. I often see Less resources for Joomla I was first using Joomla as CMS now switched to wordpress. Joomla CMS can be controlled in much better way.

  4. This is a nice post, the best post i have seen about joomla beginners in a while.

    j

  5. kairi says:

    thanks a lot for this~ made me understand joomla better, need it for a subject of ours this semester.. :)

  6. havent used joomla – i see no benefit over wordpress – i may check it out thanks jo0hnson for the list and nice wintery background :)

    • Johnson Koh says:

      At first I didn’t think Joomla is good either due to its complicated interfaces. But I am beginning to like it as I go along learning how to use its functions.

  7. I’m not a fan of Joomla but this seems a solid collection.

  8. sendy says:

    nice posting… i can trying… thanks

  9. fix says:

    TNX VERY MUCH!

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